Ants : standard methods for measuring and monitoring biodiversity
- D. Agosti, J. Majer, L. Alonso, T. Schultz
- Environmental Science
- 2000
Ants show the way Down Under: invertebrates as bioindicators in land management
- A. Andersen, J. Majer
- Environmental Science
- 1 August 2004
Research in Australia shows that invertebrate monitoring does not require comprehensive surveys, and that it is possible to simplify sampling and processing without compromising indicator performance.
Ants: Bio-indicators of minesite rehabilitation, land-use, and land conservation
- J. Majer
- Environmental Science
- 1 July 1983
The examples given in this paper suggest that a consideration of ant species richness and evenness and also the Mountford's similarity index provides significant insight into the composition of a habitat and of the degree of disturbance.
Convergent evolution of seed dispersal by ants, and phylogeny and biogeography in flowering plants: A global survey
- S. Lengyel, A. Gove, A. Latimer, J. Majer, R. Dunn
- Biology, Environmental Science
- 20 February 2010
Long-term recolonization patterns of ants in Western Australian rehabilitated bauxite mines with reference to their use as indicators of restoration success
- J. Majer, O. Nichols
- Environmental Science
- 1 February 1998
1. The return of invertebrate animals to rehabilitated mine pits is desirable for the re-establishment of ecosystem functioning. A long-term ant monitoring programme is reported over 14 years in a…
A keystone ant species promotes seed dispersal in a “diffuse” mutualism
The relative importance of ant activity, diversity and species identity in an ant seed dispersal mutualism at local, regional and continental scales is examined and it is suggested that superficially diffuse mutualisms may depend greatly on the identity of particular partners.
Invertebrates and the Restoration of a Forest Ecosystem: 30 Years of Research following Bauxite Mining in Western Australia
- J. Majer, K. Brennan, Melinda L. Moir
- Environmental Science
- 1 December 2007
The role of ants as seed predators and as indicators of ecosystem health is described and attention is drawn to research areas receiving limited scrutiny to date, such as the contribution of terrestrial invertebrates to ecosystem function and taxonomic groups not yet studied.
Putting plant resistance traits on the map: a test of the idea that plants are better defended at lower latitudes.
The results do not support the hypothesis that tropical plants have higher levels of resistance traits than do plants from higher latitudes, and if anything, plants haveHigher resistance toward the poles.
Animals in primary succession : the role of fauna in reclaimed lands
Fauna studies and land reclamation technology, a review of the history and need for such studies, and practical aspects of fauna in reclaimed land: a methodology for collecting standardized biological data for planning and monitoring reclamation and rehabilitation programmes are reviewed.
Climatic drivers of hemispheric asymmetry in global patterns of ant species richness.
- R. Dunn, D. Agosti, N. Sanders
- Environmental ScienceEcology Letters
- 1 April 2009
Examining the latitudinal pattern of species richness across 1003 local ant assemblages finds latitudinal asymmetry, with southern hemisphere sites being more diverse than northern hemisphere sites, and the most parsimonious explanation is that greater climate change since the Eocene in the northern than in the southern hemisphere has led to more extinctions in the north with consequent effects on local ant species richness.
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